Road-train



vIi. RIIVIAILHO.

ROAD TRAIN.

v APPLICATION FILED .IUL'Y27, l9].7 3qg972' ARENEWED- NOV. 21, 191 9.

Patented .my 13, 1920.

NVENTOR Emile /imm'/a mi y EMILE RIMArLHo, or rnnisgrnancn sereneareccivrriienrn nnsroacn'snfr scIEnrEs DE Laivrnnrnn n'r -nfrroivrnccnivior rents, Faeries.

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ZApplicationsiedJuly 27, 1917, sei-iai so. 183,202.

i A to Road-Trains, of which the following is a complete specification.`

I'Ihisiinvention relates to a roadtrain formed by an automobile setcomprising av transporting vehicle thel load transported by whichproduces the energy necessary :tor the transporting vehicle.

The set comprises essentially two ele-- ments: one being the burdenprovided with la motor, a steam engine or internal combustion engine forinstance, actuating a generating dynamo or a hydraulic generator; thisburden may be a vehicle to be transported; the other being the vehiclethat effects the transport, whi'ch is provided with one or morereceiving motors capable of being supplied with energy (by means, forexample of an electrical, hydraulic or mechanicalY connection) by themotor of its burden. This transport vehicle will be designated by theterm of lorry.

This set may be applied to the transport of all burdens, especially ofvehicles, and in particular of ammunition and ordnance vehicles in theform of caterpillars.

It is to be observed that the burden may consist of a completecaterpillar vehicle, or of load elements of heavy ordnance for instance,temporarily resting on caterpillars. In its application to ordnance theadvantages of this device are made particularly obvious, by theconditions of mobility on very varied surfaces which are necessary forartillery vehicles. These vehicles ought to be able to move easily onroads to form a convoy, and they also ought to be able, over irregularor broken ground, to .reach the firing position assigned to them, orapproach the line of battle across elds.

These vehicles, which are often of considerable weight, ought thereforeto be on wheels for forming a convoy'on the road and on caterpillars fortraveling across fields.

VThe invention realizes these conditions by electrical hydraulic ormechanical connection of the burden (theordnance carry- Specicaton ofLetters Patent.

Renewed `November 2l, i819. Serial No. 339,679.

ing vehicle for example)V provided with an energy-generating motor set,with the receiving motor carried by `they lorry.

Iatented duty-T13,

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates some eonstructional formsof the invention by way oexample Figure l illustrates a construction'alform oi' an automobile set applied to a caterpillar ammunition wagon.

F igQQ shows an automobile set compris-` ing an ammunition wagonactuating its transporting vehicle, but also actuating, by a cable,another set consisting of a lorry supporting a caterpillar gun carriage.e

F ig. 8 shows a train oie three transporting lorries united by a cable,each having its own electrical motor and the first carrying a dynamo.

In Fig. 4; is illustrated an automobile set comprising a lorrysupporting a caterpillar gun carriage, the electric current which may beproduced in the caterpillar gun carriage itself is engendered in anindependent auX- iliary trailer which may be coupled indifferently tothe caterpillar gun carriage or to the lorry. v

In Fig. 1,@ is the transporting vehicle or lorry which comprises its ownsteering gear as well as receiving motors or prime mover c, and ofcourseit may if desired be provided with a generating motor. d represents theload to be transported, which in the example illustrated consists of acaterpillar ammunition wagon comprising its generating motor c whichdistributes its energy to the receiver c of the lorry by means of thecable The energy will preferably be electric current, but it may behydraulic, mechanical or thermal vl(steam or hydrocarbon).

In Fig. 2 the lorry a carries as a load an ammunition wagon CZ of whichthe generaning motor e supplies its current through the cable f to thelorry 7L, which is provided with the usual steering gear b and a motorc.

In Fig. 3 a train of lorries has been illustrated, showing theutilization of these vehicles for supply purposes when they have setdown their caterpillar vehicles on the ground. In this figure, c'represents a guncarrying lorry which may be provided with the generatingmotor e, a gun-carriage' carrying vehicle, and L the ammunitiWagon-Carrying vehicle.

Fig. l illustrates the combination of'an energy-generating auxiliarytrailer Z, which may be Coupled by cable either to the burden vehicle mor directly to the lorry n. VThis Construction is useful, because itgives then carrier removable from the Vehicle, and a generator on saidload carrier for supplying energy to the motor on the vehicle.

2. In a road train a transporting vehicle, a motor thereon l'or thepropulsion of the transporting vehicle, means lfor controlling* themoi/'ement of the transporting velnele,A

a veliiele on said transporting Vehicle, a generator' on said secondmentioned vehicle 'for supplying energy to the motor on the transportingVehicle, and a motor-for actuating said second Vehicle coupled to thegenerator` Y 3. In a road train a vehicle having Wheels,

, a caterpillar vehicle on said' Vehicleliaying Wheels,a motonfor thepropulsion .of said Wheeled Vehicle, a motor for the propulsion of thecaterpillarvehicle; means for con'- trolling the movement of the firstnamed vehicle, and a generator on the caterpillar Vehicle adapted tosupply energy to the motor on the Wheeled vehicle and to the motor onthe lCaterpillar Vehicle.

4f. In a road train a transporting vehicle, a motor onsaid vehicle, aloadv for vsaid transporting vehicle forming a 'Vehicle'ol a differenttype, a motor on the Vehicle forming the load7 and a generatoren saidloadorrning Vehicle adapted to supply energy to either of the motors. yY

In testimony whereof I vhave hereunto seit my'hand at St.-Etienne,(France), this 20th day oit June 1917.

EMILE RIMAILHO.

In the presence of two Witnesses:

JEAN BRUYEROY, DAVIS B.'Lnv1s.

